Game-ball.



N0.690,86|. Patented Jan. 7, I902. W. H. HOYT.

GAME BALL.

(Application filed Mar. 22, 1901.)

(lo Model.)

ATTORNEYS I UNITED TATS WILLIAM H. HOYT, OF WVYOMING, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGN OR TO THE BURT COMPANY, OF MILBURN, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

GAM E BALL...

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,861, dated January 7, 1902.

Application filed March 22, 1901. Serial No. 52,278.' (No model.)

To ctZl whom it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM H. HOYT, a citizen of the United States, residing in lVyoming,Essex county,State of New J ersey,have

invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Balls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in game-balls and other solid objects.

In the accompanying drawingslhave shown a game-ball in which my invention is embodied.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a face View of the spot of the ball. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of the spot. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional View of a portion of the ball. Fig. 4 is a view of the ball, and Fig. 5 is a section 011 line 5 5 of the ball.

In the drawings, 0, represents a ball -body made of plastic material by pressure in a mold. In the side of the ball is a spot 5, preferably having perforated figures, letters, or other designations. This spot is made of plastic material and is shown as having beveled edges 25 c. In forming the ball or other object the spot is placed in the mold with the material of the ball or other object and the whole is integrated by heat and pressure. Under the influence of the heat and pressure the plastic material of the ball-bod y flows over the edges 0 of the spot and through the apertures therein, thus anchoring the spot firmly in the ball. It will be observed that those portions cl of the material of the ball-body which extend through the apertures of the spot 19 are wedgeshaped or tapering from the surface of the ball inward by reason of the fact that theside walls of the apertures,which are parallel when the spot is flat, converge when the spot is bent in the ball-forming stage. When the surface of the body bearing the spot is fiat, this converging of the walls of the aperture in the form of spot shown will not take place, but the numerals may be countersunk. It is not essential that any numerals at all be employed, as the undercut edge 0 of the spot will suffice to anchor the spot firmly in place.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A- game-ball composed of plastic material and having an apertured spot of plastic material set therein, the Walls of the aperture in the spot extending radially so as to converge toward the center of the ball and to stand normally to the exposed surface of the spot,

, extending into the aperture of the spot,whereby the spot will be firmly anchored in place.

W. H. HOYT. Witnesses: S. D. E. MORSE,

OTTO V. SOHRENK. 

